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We present a new technique for computing entanglement harvesting with Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors. The method is particularly useful in cases where analytic solutions are rare and the Wightman function is known only via its mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Keith K. Ng , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Motivated by the prospect of experimental implementations of entanglement harvesting in superconducting circuits, we propose a model of variable-gap particle detector that aims to bridge some of the gaps between Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Adam Teixidó-Bonfill , Xi Dai , Adrian Lupascu , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

It has been shown that the vacuum state of a free quantum field is entangled and such vacuum entanglement can be harvested by a pair of initially uncorrelated detectors interacting locally with the vacuum field for a finite time. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Hui Hu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

We consider two initially entangled Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors and examine how the initial entanglement changes after interacting with a quantum scalar field. As initially nonentangled detectors extract entanglement from the field,…

We analyze scenarios in which pairs of Unruh-DeWitt-like detectors interact with scalar field(s) with bi-linear and quadratic coupling. For all cases -- real scalar fields, charged scalar fields, and even for couplings mixing two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Allison M. Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We study entanglement harvesting for matter systems such as atoms, ions or molecules, whose center of mass degrees of freedom are quantum delocalized and which couple to a relativistic quantum field. We employ a generalized Unruh-deWitt…

Within any anticipated unifying theory of quantum gravity, it should be meaningful to combine the fundamental notions of quantum superposition and spacetime to obtain so-called "spacetime superpositions": that is, quantum superpositions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Joshua Foo , Cemile Senem Arabaci , Magdalena Zych , Robert B. Mann

We study the entanglement harvesting between two identical buckled honeycomb lattices placed inside a planar microcavity. By applying time dependent perturbation theory, we obtain quantum correlations between both layers induced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Facundo Arreyes , Federico Escudero , Juan Sebastián Ardenghi , Alfredo Juan

We study the extraction of quantum coherence by three static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors that interact locally with a massless scalar vacuum field in the vicinity of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. Depending on the setup, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu-Min Wu , Xiao-Ying Jiang , Xiang-Yue Yu , Zhihong Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

We study the role that both vacuum fluctuations and vacuum entanglement of a scalar field play in identifying the spacetime topology, which is not prescribed from first principles---neither in general relativity or quantum gravity. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Alexander R. H. Smith , Daniel R. Terno

We show that entanglement can be used to detect spacetime curvature. Quantum fields in the Minkowski vacuum are entangled with respect to local field modes. This entanglement can be swapped to spatially separated quantum systems using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-22 Greg Ver Steeg , Nicolas C. Menicucci

The effect of black holes on entanglement harvesting has been of considerable interest over the past decade. Research involving stationary Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors near a (2+1)-dimensional Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 S. Wang , M. R. Preciado Rivas , R. B. Mann

We analyze correlations between pairs of particle detectors quadratically coupled to a real scalar field. We find that, while a single quadratically coupled detector presents no divergences, when one considers pairs of detectors there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Allison Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We implement the entanglement harvesting protocol, in which two Unruh-DeWitt detectors become entangled through local interactions with a quantum field, for the first time in the vicinity of a black hole. Our study, focusing on the BTZ…

We study bipartite entanglement harvesting from the quantum vacuum of a massless scalar field between two subsystems, each composed of a finite number of Unruh-DeWitt detectors. Using perturbation theory, we show that the leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Santeri Salomaa , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Sergi Nadal-Gisbert

We study, in the framework of the entanglement harvesting protocol, the entanglement harvesting of both a pair of inertial and uniformly accelerated detectors locally interacting with vacuum massless scalar fields subjected to a perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Zhihong Liu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

We investigate the protocol of entanglement harvesting, where two spacelike separated particle detectors extract quantum correlations from a quantum field. Specifically, we analyze the role of the mass of the field and the energy gap of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Héctor Maeso-García , T. Rick Perche , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We study entanglement harvesting in general $d$-dimensional conformal field theories using pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to scalar primary operators. This extends standard harvesting protocols beyond free fields to interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Kelly Wurtz , Caroline Lima , Robert C. Myers , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We consider entanglement extraction into two two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors from a vacuum of a neutral massless quantum scalar field in a four-dimensional spacetime, where the general monopole coupling to the scalar field is assumed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-11 Jun-ichirou Koga , Gen Kimura , Kengo Maeda